AIPAC spent zero dollars boosting Daniel Biss. Therefore there is no sense in which they "bought" the election. Saying they did is a falsehood no matter how you slice it.
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Jeff Lazarus
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This. And this is something the far left doesn’t get. It’s simple logic.
Vibecession Forever60 Democrats with whom I only agree like 75-80% of the time is worth way, way, way more to me than 49 Democrats I agree with 100% of the time. And I feel that way about basically every issue. And honestly, if you don’t agree, I really am not sure you understand how all of this actually works.
Like I said, I'm not making this stuff up. Subhead: "Attorney general cites harassment and concerns about antisemitism within the party"
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AIPAC is bad, it supports a lot of bad candidates, its electioneering is often sketchy. No argument there. It also hasn't been particularly successful in achieving the outcomes it wants, and its transformation into the omni-villain of left-wing politics has obvious, disturbing historic echoes.
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This is exactly what Putin did with Russian oligarchs in 2000: pay to play extortion www.npr.org/sections/mon...
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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She lost to a guy AIPAC spent seven figures attacking and he proudly reveled in it. The one they backed came third. To call a Biss win "AIPAC bought" is grossly dishonest, and embracing it amounts to El-Sayed attacking an incoming Dem congressman who *agrees* with both of them about Israel & AIPAC.
Kat AbughazalehAIPAC may have bought our election in Illinois, but we're not going to let that happen in Michigan. 5 days left to make them panic. Vote for Abdul on or before August 4th.
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Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.
Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?
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TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE IMMUNITY FROM AUDITS. He simply does not. It doesn't matter there is an agreement that says he does. It is simply illegal for him to sign such an agreement. If I sign a settlement agreement that says I'm immune to bullets, it doesn't actually make me immune to bullets.
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Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...